SCOLOPACID^. 
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JlccurvirostTa, Linn. Bill flattened ^ flexible, the tip 
narrow, very thin, and curving upwards. Legs ve^ 
long. Anterior toes conspicuously semipalmated. 
The natatorial type. 
R. avosetta. Selby, ii. pi. 20. 
Himantopus, Brisson. BiU very narrow and slender ; 
the base depressed, but the outer half cylindrical and 
slightly inclining upwards. Tarsus excessively long. 
Anterior toes semipalmated; the inner shortest; the 
hinder toe wanting. 
H. melanopterus. PI. Enl. 878. 
Falcinellus, Cuvier.* Bill more or less arched. The 
hinder toe wanting. (TeM. Man.) 
Stbepsilas, Illiger. Turn- 
stone. Bill short, very 
straight, conic, compressed 
its whole length : the gonys 
bent upwards : the nasal 
groove hardly extending be- 
yond the aperture of the nostrils. Tarsus not longer 
than the middle toe. Anterior toes cleft to their 
base, and margined; hinder toe moderate. The 
natatorial type. 
S. interpres. Selby, pi. 33. £ 1, 2, 3. {J>g- 319-) 
• Of this type, if such it be, I know nothing, except from the descriptions 
of Cuvier and Temminck. 
